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TIL that taxidermists use beetles to clean bones for skeletal displays.

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X0PE TIL most new Apple and Android devices have built in magnometers (metal detectors). These are primarily for the built in compass, but can also help find metal things in the grass.
wLA4E TIL The Milky Way rotates at a speed of 168 miles per second. So, the actual place in space where you were an hour ago is now roughly 600,000 miles away.
6XLZ TIL A 20 year-old woman was kept as a (sex-)slave in a box for 23 hours a day between 1977 and 1984; at one point she was permitted to even visit her family, yet still returned to her captors.
gQM8 TIL Qatar’s 2022 World Cup will take more lives than 9/11 due to horrible working conditions for migrant workers building stadiums and infrastructure.
MPeB TIL that the Yakuza, Japan’s largest organized crime syndicate, provided food, water, blankets, diapers, etc. during both the 1995 and 2011 Japanese Earthquakes and at a much faster response time than even the Japanese Government.